I dunno about you, but I still use my e-mail fine. E-mail mailing lists, to personal correspondence, to professional correspondence. E-mail isn't going to die any time soon.
This site is the place to discuss whatever people feel like discussing. As Taco mentioned, it's a slow news day, and why not?
It's not just only technology that this site deals with, politics and various other topics are integral to the feel here. Read the discussion of the Omelette in the FAQ if you need further clarification. (Besides, aren't you a bit new here to make judgements on what this site is about?)
Fear is a good motivator to do a rush job. Many open-source projects pride themselves on quality work. The BSDs actually follow this philosophy fairly strongly and refuse to commit anything that's just a quick hack.
So yes, open-source projects aren't motivated to do it, they're motivated to do it right.
I've been playing around with several different solutions for this. Personally I have no need for any of them except when coding microcontrollers at my robotic's competition once a year or so, in which case I just use some makefiles that act as the interface and run the compiler with wine for me. It worked totally fine.
Other than wine however, QEmu (http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/) is a nice speed driven emulator that will do full on emulation of a system. It recently became able to emulate a system well enough to install and use all versions of windows up through XP. Quite a neat thing actually. It's much faster than boches, which I've also tried, and it has a fairly complete feature set. (Though obviously is for a slightly different purpose than boches, as boches is being mostly used as an operating system development tool now.)
Wine, WineX and Crossover all also work for even faster results but of course don't emulate the entire system. The apps integrate better of course though, due to the fact that wine will go ahead and put it on your desktop for you so you don't have to know the difference.
The interface and graphics are a very similar style as EQ1. I really don't see horridly innovative graphics increases, just more pixles, not anything more descriptive or mechanically working better.
Mmmmm... intellegent software and webcams... sounds like a hacking attempt to me...
Now just by taking pictures of a person looking at their computer you can authenticate as them. Although I suppose you'd also have to see which ones were on the screen.
You may have paid for the hardware, but the software is licensed to you. In this case, you are only allowed to use the portions of it that are openly available. That's the reason, among others, that this camera costs so much less that its bigger brother: it does less stuff. You want to do more stuff? Pay for the camera that does it.
There should be nothing preventing me from altering the software on the camera I bought. It's like telling me I can't write notes in the book I bought because it's not licensed for it. I don't agree to license the software in the camera btw, I buy the camera.
I sell you a plow... you buy my plow. I rig the plow to not function from 5-9. You however, enjoy plowing in the moonlight and this is a problem to you.
I also sell the same identical plow, but without rigging it, for $500 more.
Perhaps it shouldn't be criminal, I was speaking on a relitively loose basis. It is however blatent price inflation and distasteful as hell... something consumers should be on the watch for.
So I don't necessarily disagree with you, but perhaps that analogy will provide someone with the reasons on why it is so very distasteful.
This will be happening a lot in the future... it's a good thing though, if they can make a product more powerful for that amount of money than they should do so. Marking up the same hardware and because you don't have artifical barriers on it should be a crime...
Unfortunately, it's breaking these artifical barriers to make full use of hardware you paid for that a crime in our society.
>Apparantly you seem to think that all an open >source project needs is access to the internet for >the website and CVS.
Yes, that's exactly what I think. Linus doesn't didn't need a full-time position to work on linux, he happens to have one now but worked at transmeta a bit back and did several other things, he certainly didn't when he was a university student in Helsinki.
Give the project CVS and a website, people will help it, there's people who need this code, this isn't a pet project. If you need the code, you write it. GrSecurity is a project which people will work on, so long as the code remains. If spender isn't willing to work on it, Gentoo Hardened or a similar person should just give whoever wants to step into his position the resources to do so.
I wonder if the Gentoo Hardened project will continue grsecurity development, they've done a bit of work with it anyways. Gentoo could certainly supply grsecurity with the needed webspace/cvs hosting etc...
I wonder if that option was looked at before spender decided to give up. Does anyone have ideas on why this couldn't be done? Seems fairly simple to me..
gnome-base/gnome
Latest version available: 2.6
Latest version installed: 2.6
Size of downloaded files: 0 kB
Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/
Description: Meta package for the GNOME desktop.
License: as-is
Think it's been there for a few weeks too... they usually have the ebuilds up before the sourcecode actually comes out, when the source is released, they unmask and everyone lets their machines roll and build.
Yes, portage automagically applies that patch if needed, I've been using it too. I've applied it myself with other distros, but with portage I've watched it automagically work.:)
Not to be one of those people always promoting Gentoo or anything... but I've heard Gentoo has parallel init... think my system does it... not sure, but think it does. Anyone want to clarify?
My USB mouse is working as we speak... in fact, I'm typing this on kernel 2.6.0-test9mm3... perhaps it's the MM patch, but otherwise my mouse is functioning beautifully.
Here, I'll use it to press the submit button now... (and scroll down to it too!)
Slashdot Mirror
I dunno about you, but I still use my e-mail fine. E-mail mailing lists, to personal correspondence, to professional correspondence. E-mail isn't going to die any time soon.
Can the vouchers be used for other things like with several other settlements? Or does it have to just be refunded for more M$ crap?
This site is the place to discuss whatever people feel like discussing. As Taco mentioned, it's a slow news day, and why not?
It's not just only technology that this site deals with, politics and various other topics are integral to the feel here. Read the discussion of the Omelette in the FAQ if you need further clarification. (Besides, aren't you a bit new here to make judgements on what this site is about?)
This btw... is a small explaination of a CAVE.
Fear is a good motivator to do a rush job. Many open-source projects pride themselves on quality work. The BSDs actually follow this philosophy fairly strongly and refuse to commit anything that's just a quick hack.
So yes, open-source projects aren't motivated to do it, they're motivated to do it right.
> Once you put them on hold, they'll never make the mistake of calling again.
Oops! I did it again!
I mean... yeah... you can shoot me now.
I've been playing around with several different solutions for this. Personally I have no need for any of them except when coding microcontrollers at my robotic's competition once a year or so, in which case I just use some makefiles that act as the interface and run the compiler with wine for me. It worked totally fine.
Other than wine however, QEmu (http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/) is a nice speed driven emulator that will do full on emulation of a system. It recently became able to emulate a system well enough to install and use all versions of windows up through XP. Quite a neat thing actually. It's much faster than boches, which I've also tried, and it has a fairly complete feature set. (Though obviously is for a slightly different purpose than boches, as boches is being mostly used as an operating system development tool now.)
Wine, WineX and Crossover all also work for even faster results but of course don't emulate the entire system. The apps integrate better of course though, due to the fact that wine will go ahead and put it on your desktop for you so you don't have to know the difference.
The interface and graphics are a very similar style as EQ1. I really don't see horridly innovative graphics increases, just more pixles, not anything more descriptive or mechanically working better.
Mmmmm... intellegent software and webcams... sounds like a hacking attempt to me...
Now just by taking pictures of a person looking at their computer you can authenticate as them. Although I suppose you'd also have to see which ones were on the screen.
You may have paid for the hardware, but the software is licensed to you. In this case, you are only allowed to use the portions of it that are openly available. That's the reason, among others, that this camera costs so much less that its bigger brother: it does less stuff. You want to do more stuff? Pay for the camera that does it.
There should be nothing preventing me from altering the software on the camera I bought. It's like telling me I can't write notes in the book I bought because it's not licensed for it. I don't agree to license the software in the camera btw, I buy the camera.
I sell you a plow... you buy my plow. I rig the plow to not function from 5-9. You however, enjoy plowing in the moonlight and this is a problem to you.
I also sell the same identical plow, but without rigging it, for $500 more.
Perhaps it shouldn't be criminal, I was speaking on a relitively loose basis. It is however blatent price inflation and distasteful as hell... something consumers should be on the watch for.
So I don't necessarily disagree with you, but perhaps that analogy will provide someone with the reasons on why it is so very distasteful.
This will be happening a lot in the future... it's a good thing though, if they can make a product more powerful for that amount of money than they should do so. Marking up the same hardware and because you don't have artifical barriers on it should be a crime...
Unfortunately, it's breaking these artifical barriers to make full use of hardware you paid for that a crime in our society.
>Apparantly you seem to think that all an open
>source project needs is access to the internet for
>the website and CVS.
Yes, that's exactly what I think. Linus doesn't didn't need a full-time position to work on linux, he happens to have one now but worked at transmeta a bit back and did several other things, he certainly didn't when he was a university student in Helsinki.
Give the project CVS and a website, people will help it, there's people who need this code, this isn't a pet project. If you need the code, you write it. GrSecurity is a project which people will work on, so long as the code remains. If spender isn't willing to work on it, Gentoo Hardened or a similar person should just give whoever wants to step into his position the resources to do so.
I wonder if the Gentoo Hardened project will continue grsecurity development, they've done a bit of work with it anyways. Gentoo could certainly supply grsecurity with the needed webspace/cvs hosting etc...
I wonder if that option was looked at before spender decided to give up. Does anyone have ideas on why this couldn't be done? Seems fairly simple to me..
Yes we can, Actual Good Old Born As Female Female, true or false... I fail to see how it cannot be stored with a BOOL.
Oh... did you mean you wanted to store more about their gender than whether they're dateable or not?
> Linux inherantly is a bit more secure than windows
Which one? The execute bit, the SUID bit, or the fact that you don't run as UID=00001.
I also like the nosuid bits, the noexec mounting options and a few other things...
So yes, it's just a few bits...
From Gentoo's Portage:
gnome-base/gnome
Latest version available: 2.6
Latest version installed: 2.6
Size of downloaded files: 0 kB
Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/
Description: Meta package for the GNOME desktop.
License: as-is
Think it's been there for a few weeks too... they usually have the ebuilds up before the sourcecode actually comes out, when the source is released, they unmask and everyone lets their machines roll and build.
Another case of needing a new moderation...
:) How are you sure those are the right numbers?
Yes, portage automagically applies that patch if needed, I've been using it too. I've applied it myself with other distros, but with portage I've watched it automagically work. :)
Not to be one of those people always promoting Gentoo or anything... but I've heard Gentoo has parallel init... think my system does it... not sure, but think it does. Anyone want to clarify?
I can factor this SOB in my head!
1 and 2^20996011 - 1
Hah!
My USB mouse is working as we speak... in fact, I'm typing this on kernel 2.6.0-test9mm3... perhaps it's the MM patch, but otherwise my mouse is functioning beautifully.
Here, I'll use it to press the submit button now... (and scroll down to it too!)
Lol! We all have our off days. :-\
In the tradition of the horrific bastardazation of Usernet by AOL, allow me to say. Me too!